Tyler Dryden is an actor and model. He was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma to Justin Smith, a historian, and Catherine Lamm, a veterinarian. He has one older brother, Derek Smith. Tyler moved to Glasgow, Scotland in 2010, where he lived with his family for 2 years, attending school at Castlehill in Bearsden. In 2012, he moved to Northern California. Since he was little, he and his brother would create vibrant, detailed, imaginary worlds and then act out different characters in these worlds. In 2017, he started acting classes and fell in love with the profession.